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The Smart Fight Against Beach Erosion and Natural Disasters in Barbados
March 04, 2013
The construction of a kilometer-long boardwalk between Rockley and Coconut Court on the southern coast of Barbados is not only a tourist attraction—it also provides safe access to beaches and has increased beach width by nearly 20 meters.
Paraguay and the IDB: partners in development
December 15, 2011
Paraguay is a founding member of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Bank's partner in development Through an ongoing process of cooperation, financing has been provided to the Paraguay to carry out major works, which have spurred the country's economy. This year, the Bank's portfolio of projects in execution in Paraguay totals 27 sovereign guarantee operations for $755.27 million, of which $445.9 million are pending disbursement.
Recycling: an opportunity for change in Colombia
February 14, 2011
Colombians change their life and transform their family's financial situation through a recycling project supported by the IDB Óscar Restrepo never imagined that recycling garbage could change his life. Previously a construction worker, he now owns a small business that gives him a monthly income of US$490 a month; six years ago his monthly earnings were only US$40.
Mesoamerica renews push towards integration
October 25, 2010
The presidents of Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Mexico, Colombia and the Dominican Republic will meet tomorrow, Oct. 26, in Cartagena, Colombia at the XII Summit of the Tuxtla Mechanism for Dialogue and Coordination. The heads of state will be informed of the progress made by the Mesoamerica Project in terms of regional integration and will decide further courses of action.
The Caribbean and the IDB at a Glance
September 27, 2010
The IDB member countries of the English-speaking Caribbean – The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago – along with Dutch-speaking Suriname, are brought together by commerce, geography, history and traditions. Their economic situation and development challenges, however, may vary widely.
Central America's integration is in full swing
July 21, 2010
In late July, the first substation of the Central American Electrical Interconnection System (SIEPAC) is opening in Costa Rica. A week later, the substation in Panama will be ready to operate. Towers, lines and cables are already in place, so the southern section of the nascent Central American electricity market will soon be a reality. PAC53 - Road from La Chorrera to Arraijan, in Panama.
Sustainable energy for Haiti, Bahamas and Barbados
May 21, 2010
Tens of thousands of Haitians who lost their homes in Port-au-Prince have left the city and migrated to rural villages or temporary encampments. International aid organizations are currently helping to construct clinics, schools, administrative centers and warehouses in some of these villages, which are located in remote areas without access to basic services.
From visitors to tourists
March 14, 2010
With the booming Cali as its business center, amazing natural beauty at short distances, a rich historic heritage and a variety of cultural attractions, the Cauca Valley attracts millions of Colombians from other regions every year. The problem is that almost all of them are visitors, not tourists.
Mesoamerica Advances
July 29, 2009
The regional integration initiative known as Proyecto Mesoamérica is gaining momentum. It was a central item on the agenda of the XI Cumbre de Tuxla (an annual summit of regional heads of state), which concluded in Costa Rica today. Last week news reports focused on a proposed multimodal transportation strategy to improve the region's competitiveness. And last June, the IDB announced the second phase of a project known as Tránsito Internacional de Mercancía, which will introduce a unified customs system for use on the borders of all Mesoamerican countries.
The IDB, a partner of Colombia in development
March 17, 2009
Since the mid-1990s the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has been the leading source of multilateral financing for Colombia. Over the last 50 years, the IDB has approved more than US$14.8 billion in loans and non-refundable technical cooperation projects for Colombia. Throughout its history, the IDB has supported the Colombian government and private sector in key development areas such as infrastructure, state modernization and reform, small and medium enterprise, agriculture, energy, climate change and environmental protection.


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June Hersh is one remarkable woman. She's got this articulate impresario presence that combines wisdom and know-how in a Jewish Oprah/ Martha Stewart kind of way. Pick a subject matter and June will research, write and perfect a delightful, informative product that is instantly marketable. Here I am, a Holocaust survivor's daughter internally struggling for years to articulate some memorial to my parents' heritage and experiences while, American rooted, June comes up with a sensitive sideward entrée onto the experience through recipes and stories of Holocaust survivors. Her first book (Recipes Remembered: A Celebration of Survival) is compassionate to their plight, a paean to their survival and achievement in a new land.
I gave a copy to my mother and she began sharing some of her own kitchen experiences with her mother; the last of which was her locking the pantry the day they were taken away, her mother saying "Little one, you won't need to lock the pantry anymore." My family's memoirs, though ever present, are still too raw to pen.
In June's new cookbook The Kosher Carnivore, she again does thorough research and walks us through the kosher meat process; from the biblical origins of what makes an animal kosher or not, through the koshering and cuts of meat. The recipes present us with core popular, culturally mixed, dishes that bring out the best in the various cuts of meats described in her cookbook.
Ben Fink's photography is well done in warm tones that subtly speak of treasured old dishes and new favorites (I wish there was more of it!). The layout is very functional, easy to follow with "Behind the Counter" and "Side Note" tips, the cross-section of variety all make it a cookbook I will refer to again and again! I highly recommend it not just for audiences familiar with kosher but also for those who are just discovering the world of Jewish culinary traditions.
Choosing a favorite dish from the book, was no easy task, there were quite a few I had tried and so many more I can't wait to try; but I thought this one – which I'll be trying this evening on Shabbat – was an interesting update to a cut of meat of meat I've always loved.
Coffee-Crusted Hanger Steak
Why not save time and have your coffee with your dinner rather than after? Freshly ground espresso beans and lots of companion spices combine to give a little jolt to the seared crust of this full-flavored steak.
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- 2 tablespoons espresso or strong coffee beans, freshly ground
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- 1 teaspoon ground ancho chilli pepper
- 1 teaspoon Spanish smoked paprika (pimentón)
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- 1 (1 to 1 1/2 pound) hanger steak, halved
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Preheat the grill or a stovetop grill pan. Grind the coffee and then the spices in a spice or coffee grinder and pour the ground mixture out onto a large plate. Let the steaks come to room temperature, then coat them in oil and roll each steak in the ground-coffee-and-spice-mixture. Grill about 15 minutes for rare to medium-rare, turning the steaks to brown on all sides. Let rest for 10 minutes, loosely covered in foil, then cut into large slices on the diagonal.
Did you know that the humble jar of paprika, which many people think is reserved for sprinkling on deviled eggs, not only provides a great splash of color, but also a terrific flavor boost? Your pantry probably holds a jar of sweet supermarket paprika, but let me tempt you to invest in the Hungarian variety, which will wake up most dishes with its earthy and slightly peppery flavor. Paprika was first processed in Hungary and is derived from red peppers, and can have a bit of a bite. For a spicier kick, try using hot paprika, and if you want that mellow smoky taste then reach for Spanish paprika, also known as pimentón.


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An Austrian operator of Tor servers—that were used to anonymously route huge amounts of traffic over the Internet—has been charged with distributing child pornography. This comes after police detected illegal images traversing one of the nodes he maintains.
William Weber, a 20-year-old IT administrator in Graz, Austria, said nine officers searched his home on Wednesday after presenting him with a court order charging him with distribution and possible production of child pornography. The crimes carry penalties of as many as 10 years in prison. Police from the Styrian Landeskriminalamt, which has jurisdiction over the Austrian state of Styria, confiscated 20 computers as well as a game console, iPads, external hard drives, USB thumb drives, and other electronics. Evidence cited in the document showed that one of seven Tor Project exit nodes he operated transported illegal images.
"My storage cubes (HP MicroServers) were confiscated without any regard for the hardware—the power cords were simply ripped out instead of properly shutting them down," he wrote in a blog post published Thursday morning. "After finishing the search in my living room, they continued in my bedroom, where they confiscated my legal firearms, as well as my cable TV receiver and my Xbox 360. Despite my statement that all firearms and ammunition were legally owned and registered, having passed all background checks, this was doubted by one of the LKA officers due to the caliber."
Short for the onion router, Tor was designed by the US Naval Research Laboratory as a way to cloak the IP addresses and contents of people sending e-mail, browsing websites, and doing other online activities. It is regularly used by political dissidents, journalists, law enforcement officers, and criminals who want to keep their online activities private. Tor works by encrypting a user's Internet traffic multiple times and funneling it through a dedicated server with its own IP address. The data is then passed to a second server, which decrypts one layer of the encryption before passing it to a third server. At that point the data is converted to its original form and sent to its final destination. Tor's onion-like architecture makes it infeasible for the contents to be intercepted by third parties, except by those monitoring an exit node. Even then, it's hard to know where the traffic originated.
Weber isn't the first operator of a Tor node to land in hot water as a result of the traffic traversing his server. In 2007, German police raided the home of a Dusseldorf man after bomb threats allegedly passed through his Tor server. Last year, a separate Tor operator said police confiscated hardware and software after someone misused his exit node.
During interview with police later on Wednesday, Weber said there was a "more friendly environment" once investigators understood the Polish server that transmitted the illegal images was used by Tor participants rather than by Weber himself. But he said he still faces the possibility of serious criminal penalties and the possibility of a precedent that Tor operators can be held liable if he's convicted.
"Sadly we have nothing like the EFF here that could help me in this case by legal assistance, so I'm on my own and require a good lawyer," he wrote in a blog post seeking donations.
Weber told Ars he typically ran about five to 10 nodes at any one time, from locations in the Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Austria, and Hong Kong. He estimated that in all they carried about 30 terabytes of data each day.
"The safest way is a middle node, as it cannot be seen from the Internet at all (it only routes internal traffic)," he told Ars. "Entry is pretty safe as well. Exit is very dangerous (as I've seen now...)"


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The Cusack Music Screamer Fuzz Germanium is a new take on our classic Screamer Fuzz. This limited production model features Germanium overdrive clipping and our original LED fuzz circuit design. (Both fuzz and overdrive are in the same circuit and are inter dependant.) We've also made it compatible with higher voltage power supplies, added a tone circuit, and equipped it with some proprietary milled aluminum knobs. To top it off, we also added a light pipe LED with a nickel-plated brass bezel, plus a Terridium finish. If you are looking for a unique overdrive/fuzz that has a variety of personalities and some added sonic quirks, you've come to the right place.
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If you are not 100% satisfied with your purchase, you can return it within 45 days of the original purchase date for a store credit refund, or within 14 days of the original purchase date for a refund to the original purchase method (PayPal, credit card, etc). If an item is not received by us within the 45-day window, the package will be refused. All new items returned must be in BRAND NEW condition with zero signs of wear or use and must be returned in the original packaging with ALL materials (free/bundled items -- must be unused/unopened, warranty cards, plastic, pouches, manuals etc.).
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Estherville, Iowa is home to the Estherville City Jail.
The Estherville City Jail is an all adult inmate jail. The Estherville City Jail will house both adult females and adult males.
These individuals will typically be picked up by the Estherville Police Department. These people will also typically not qualify for posting bail either.
These inmates will be housed in the Estherville City Jail on a short-term basis until they either will be released or sent off to their permanent facility.
How to Find Someone in Estherville City Jail
City jails typically do not keep a public inmate list on the police department website just since many inmates will be coming and going throughout the day.
So, what does that mean to you, if you are looking for an inmate or looking to gather information on an inmate?
You will be required to either go down to the Estherville City Jail and ask your questions there or you are free to call the facility and talk to the correctional officer over the phone with your comments, concerns, and questions.
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You can stay in touch with an inmate in the Estherville City Jail by sending them photos and letters. You will only be permitted to send a maximum of 3 photos per letter. Make sure the inmate's name and information is on EVERYTHING that you send to the facility.
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Money is vital in the Estherville City Jail. You can drop the money order off when you visit the inmate with the correctional officer, or if you are not local you can mail it via USPS.
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The Estherville City Jail only allows outgoing phone calls. These calls are collected calls. These calls are 15-minutes long. These calls will be monitored by a correctional officer.
You will NOT be allowed to use your phone features while on the call with the inmate in the Estherville City Jail.
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114 North Sixth Street, Estherville, IA, 51334
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Small Florida city wonders who won $590 million Powerball jackpot
Some lucky person walked into a Publix supermarket in suburban Florida over the past few days and bought a ticket now worth an estimated $590.5 million — the highest Powerball jackpot in history.
May 19, 2013 - 4:21 pm
ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. — Some lucky person walked into a Publix supermarket in suburban Florida over the past few days and bought a ticket now worth an estimated $590.5 million — the highest Powerball jackpot in history.
But it wasn't Matthew Bogel. On Sunday, he loaded groceries into his car after shopping at the Publix. He shook his head when asked about the jackpot.
"It's crazy, isn't it?" he said. "That's so much money."
It's an amount too high for many to imagine. Compare it to the budget for the city of Zephyrhills: This year's figure is just more than $49 million. The winning Powerball jackpot is 12 times that.
Whoever has the ticket hadn't come forward as of Sunday afternoon.
"This would be the sixth Florida Powerball winner and right now, it's the sole winner of the largest ever Powerball jackpot," Florida Lottery executive Cindy O'Connell told The Associated Press. "We're delighted right now that we have the sole winner."
Publix spokeswoman Maria Brous said that there are a lot of rumors about who won, but the store doesn't know. "We're excited for the winner or winners," she said.
Florida Lottery spokesman David Bishop said Sunday afternoon that it was doubtful the winner would come forward that day. The ticket-holder can't claim the prize until Monday when the agency opens, he said.
"It never happens this quickly," Bishop said. "If they know they won, they're going to contact their attorney or an accountant first so they can get their affairs in order."
O'Connell said Florida has had more Powerball winners than any other state but did not give any indication whether anyone had stepped forward with the winning ticket in Saturday's drawing.
But plenty of people in Zephyrhills — population 13,337 — are wondering whether it's someone they know.
Joan Albertson drove to the Publix early Sunday morning with her camera in hand, in case the winner emerged. She said she had bought a ticket at a store across the street, and the idea of winning that much money was still something of a shock.
"Oh, there's so much good that you could do with that amount of money." Albertson said. "I don't even know where to begin."
Zephyrhills is a small city in Pasco County, about 30 miles northeast of downtown Tampa. Once a rural farming town, it's now known as a hotbed for skydiving activity, and the home to large retiree mobile home parks and Zephyrhills bottled water.
And now, one lucky lottery ticket.
"I'm getting text messages and messages from Facebook going, `uh, did you win the lottery?' " Sandra Lewis said. "No, I didn't win, guys. Sorry."
Sara Jeltis said her parents in Michigan texted her with the news Sunday morning.
"Well, it didn't click till I came here," she said, gesturing to the half-dozen TV live trucks humming in the Publix parking lot. "And I'm like, wow I can't believe it, it's shocking! Out of the whole country, this Publix, in little Zephyrhills would be the winner."
With four out of every five possible combinations of Powerball numbers in play, lottery executives said Saturday that someone was almost certain to win the game's highest jackpot, a windfall of hundreds of millions of dollars — and that's after taxes.
The winning numbers were 10, 13, 14, 22 and 52, with a Powerball of 11.
Estimates had earlier put the jackpot at around $600 million. But Powerball's online site said Sunday that the jackpot had reached an estimated $590.5 million.
The world's largest jackpot was a $656 million Mega Millions jackpot in March 2012.
Terry Rich, CEO of the Iowa Lottery, initially confirmed that one Florida winning ticket had been sold. He told AP that following the Florida winner, the Powerball grand prize was being reset at an estimated jackpot of $40 million, or about $25.1 million cash value.
The chances of winning the prize were astronomically low: 1 in 175.2 million. That's how many different ways you can combine the numbers when you play. But lottery officials estimated that about 80 percent of those possible combinations had been purchased recently.
While the odds are low for any one individual or individuals, O'Connell said, the chance that one hits paydirt is what makes Powerball exciting.
"There is just the chance that you will have the opportunity, and Florida is a huge Powerball state," O'Connell said. "We have had more winners than any other state that participates in Powerball."
The longshot odds didn't deter people across Powerball-playing states — 43 plus Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands ' from lining up at gas stations and convenience stores Saturday.
Clyde Barrow, a public policy professor at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, specializes in the gaming industry. He said one of the key factors behind the ticket-buying frenzy is the size of the jackpot — people are interested in the easy investment.
"Even though the odds are very low, the investment is very small," he said. "Two dollars gets you a chance."
Lewis, who went to the Publix on Sunday to buy water, said she didn't play — and she isn't upset about it.
"Life goes on," she said, shrugging. "I'm good."


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Theresa Tamkins has an interesting article on CNN.com, titled "Wearing Red May Boost Your Sex Appeal." Here are some excerpts.
Does wearing the color red give you a sexual edge? Maybe, according to a new study, which found that men find women sexier if they're sporting a crimson hue rather than, say, blue or green.
However, red won't make you look smarter or more competent, says study author Andrew Elliot, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at the University of Rochester in New York.
"We only found the effect for attraction, so males don't rate females in red as more intelligent, more likable, or as having a better personality; they only rate her as sexier and more attractive," he says.
Men also were more likely to say they wanted to have sex with a woman and that they would be willing to spend more on a date if she were in red, according to the report in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (pdf here).
In a series of five studies, about 150 heterosexual men (homosexual men and those with red-green color blindness were excluded) rated photographs of women framed in red, white, gray, green, or blue, or with the woman in a red or blue shirt.
On a 7-point scale, with 1 being the least sexy and 7 a white-hot sex goddess, the color red added about 1.25 points to the rating, says Elliot.
That's nice, but given the looming election, one might wonder: Does wearing red make you more attractive in the voting booth too?
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"We actually have other research showing that red on the cover of an IQ test leads to worse performance, so red is actually a negative color [in some instances]," says Elliot.
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Why is red so sexy? The researchers have a couple of theories.
One is cultural: From red roses to Valentine's Day, red is the universally recognized sign of romance; it makes sense that men may subconsciously associate the color red with sex.
. . . . "There's also a possibility — a rather provocative possibility — that there's a deeply embedded sort of tendency for heterosexual men to see red as an attraction cue because that's what happens in the wild."
For example, the rumps of some primates turn red during ovulation, so it's possible that men have some tiny portion deep in their brain that recognizes red as a mating symbol — even though it's an association that hasn't come in handy for a few million years.
However, it's all speculation at this point. The study can't determine if red is sexy because we're all just a bunch of animals running around in business suits, or if red is a culturally determined sex symbol. It also can't determine if wearing red has an effect outside the laboratory.
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To read the entire article, click here. For related Situationist posts, see "The Situation of Body Image," "The Situation of Hair Color," "The Magnetism of Beautiful People," "Survival of the Cutest," "Spas and Girls," "Fitting in and Sizing Up," and "Shades of Fairness and the Marketing of Prejudice."
Thanks to (situationist) Andrew Perlman for sending us this link.


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Sunday, July 16, 2006
Face-Lift 121
Guess the Plot
Aisling's Tale
1. As he endures constant jostling, and luggage raining from the racks above, Kyle Freeble dreams of one day having a window seat.
2. Aisling, the religious leader of a pagan clan, converts to Christianity. Her husband decides to punish her by sacrificing their son to the fire god. Will Aisling try Buddhism next?
3. Professor Kettlewick, composing his treatise on17th-century Irish vision poems, is unaware that his nightmare of a world overrun by cybernetic leprechauns is about to become all too real.
4. Aisling, a bard and storyteller at The Toad's Beard Inn, is living a quiet life until Widowcracken, the evil overlord, kidnaps him and presses him into service as his personal entertainer.
5. When four-year old Aisling O'Connor places at the bottom of the pre-school 'Spell Your Own Name' competition she vows vengeance on her Irish ancestors.
6. A sparrow cursed to live as a human, Aisling spends far too much time seeking pants that hide his last remaining tail feather.
Original Version
"Christ is my druid now."
With these words, Aisling O'Ceallaigh rejects the ancient gods of her people. Destined from childhood to succeed her dead mother as druidess to her clan, Aisling has hidden a secret that could mean death if it is discovered - she doubts the power of the gods she is to serve, and nurses a hope that something else exists beyond the universe she knows.
Aisling keeps her secret concealed until the day she stumbles upon a secret ritual in the midst of ancient standing stones. [Is it Stonehenge?] A prophecy has been circulating throughout Ireland, predicting the coming of a foreign god. The druid Ronan is about to sacrifice the life of a young boy in order to keep the prophecy from being fulfilled. Aisling sabotages Ronan's plan to rescue Luc, [Luc . . . I am your Druidess.] exposing her faithlessness.
On the journey home to face the judgment of her own clan, Aisling falls out of the cauldron and into the fire when a chieftain bent on revenge against her father abducts her. Despite her attempts to escape Lorcan MacKenna, he prevails by threatening her father's life, and Aisling enters into a loveless marriage. When a former British slave named Patrick receives permission to camp outside the ringfort gates, Aisling hears the Gospel and receives Jesus Christ. Her husband decides to offer their son [Their son? When did that happen?] in the Samhain fires to punish her. Aisling hides the child and faces her husband's fury alone, trusting her Lord for ultimate redemption.
Aisling's Tale is a historical romance, [You forgot to include anything in the query that would indicate there's a romance.] [Her marriage is loveless; does she have a love affair with the slave? Apparently while he was turning her on to Christainity, he "forgot" the part about not committing adultery?] and takes place at the dawn of Christianity in fifth-century pagan Ireland. The finished manuscript is 98,000 words.
I have included the first chapter. Thank you very much for your time and consideration.
Revised Version
"Christ is my druid now."
With these words, Aisling O'Ceallaigh rejects the ancient gods of her people. Destined from childhood to succeed her dead mother as druidess to her clan, Aisling has a secret that could mean death if it is discovered - she doubts the power of the gods, and nurses a hope that something else exists beyond the universe she knows.
Aisling keeps her secret concealed until the day she stumbles upon a secret ritual in the midst of ancient standing stones. A prophecy has been circulating throughout Ireland, predicting the coming of a foreign god, and the druid Ronan is about to sacrifice the life of a young boy to prevent the prophecy's fulfillment. Aisling sabotages Ronan's plan and rescues Luc, exposing her faithlessness.
On the journey home to face the judgment of her clan, Aisling falls out of the cauldron and into the fire when a chieftain bent on revenge against her father abducts her. Despite her attempts to escape Lorcan MacKenna, he prevails by threatening her father's life, and Aisling enters into a loveless marriage, one that produces her first son.
When a former British slave named Patrick receives permission to camp outside the ringfort gates, Aisling finds herself entranced by both his hunky bod and his preaching of the Gospel. She receives Jesus Christ. And shouts, "Hallelujah!" Then she also receives Patrick. And again shouts, "Hallelujah!" Her husband decides to offer their son in the Samhain fires to punish her, but Aisling hides the child and faces her husband's fury alone, trusting her Lord for ultimate redemption.
Aisling's Tale is a historical romance, and takes place at the dawn of Christianity in fifth-century pagan Ireland. The finished manuscript is 98,000 words. I have included the first chapter. Thank you very much for your time and consideration.
Evil Editor didn't change much, except where the author seemed to be letting a year go by between sentences, and adding the romance angle. It sounded more like an inspirational book than a romance in the original.
37 comments:
- Anonymous said...
What happened to the peace loving eunuchs? Surely they step in for the poor woman, with poems about love and peace?
- Catja (green_knight) said...
Aisling sabotages Ronan's plan to rescue Luc
I sincerely hope that the writer will read his queries more thoroughly in the future.
Ronan plans to _sacrifice_ Luc. _Aisling_ rescues.
And I equally hope that the writer will read up a little bit on the period in which he proposes to write and research things like names, and, well, druidry...
- Anonymous said...
What does the secret ritual at Stonehenge have to do with the rest of the story?
It seems like the setup is that she is married to this guy she doesn't care for, she falls for Patrick/Christ & the husband has a cow (and a bonfire).
The whole Luc/Stonehenge/traveling home thing are just details on the way to the main story. They could be cut from the query & perhaps from the story.
- Anonymous said...
To me, it would work better from the 'pagan's' side (minus sacrificing your own child thing). Why? Well, you know what Native Americans, African slaves, India's population, and many others have in common? Yep, they were all 'barbarians', as far as 'good', Christian people were concerned.
You probably don't need to listen to me, after all, I am a nut...
P.S. No, I do not think all/most of/many Christians subscribe to this 'barbarians must be converted' view.
- Anonymous said...
I know zilch about the time period in which this is set, but I think the idea's cool. Family versus family, people turning against their faith, hunky slaves *grins*
I agree with anonymous about the fact that the Stonehenge (if it is indeed Stonehenge; there were other druid rings - oh wait, I said I know zilch about this time period didn't? I stand corrected) scene doesn't add much. What happens to Luc?
Also, the title doesn't really jump out at me. Maybe it needs to be in capital letters? :)
Good luck with this!
- none said...
Is it Stonehenge?
Not unless Wiltshire was unusually mobile way back when...
- Anonymous said...
Is thsi "former British slave named Patrick" supposed to be st. Patrick? If so, his having a tawdry romance with Aisling might stir up enough contoversy to make the book a bestseller, but you'd better watch your ass next March 17.
- Anonymous said...
Did the writer intend for the religion of the druids to have some apparent validity in the story? After all, they had a correct prophecy, so they weren't complete frauds.
I mention it only because the novel does seem like it was intended to be predominantly an inspirational story, and this aspect doesn't fit.
The romance also doesn't seem to fit; perhaps it should be chopped, rather than emphasised.
- born_liar said...
The "sacrificing his son as revenge" thing doesn't work for me at all. Wouldn't it make more sense for him to kill the slave?
- Anonymous said...
I think this story has potential if some of the advice given by EE and his minions is taken to heart. It is very tough to find entertaining novels about Christianity as a good thing. If, that is what is intended here. -JTC
- Anonymous said...
"Patrick" in Irish is "Padraig". Just, y'know, informationally. There's no way the author DOESN'T mean St. Patrick, and I would just like to say... St. Brendan the Navigator was ten times the hunk St. Patrick ever was! *ahem*
And burftysquirrel, we were thinking the same thing -- Wiltshire on wheels!
- Stacia said...
Patrick is Padraig in Irish, Rachel, but St. Patrick wasn't Irish.
You're right, though, in that Aisling would likely call him Padraig, and that accurate Irish names should be used in the book.
I don't know if it would please the author to know that as a pagan I would not enjoy a story where pagans are protrayed as people who sacrifice their children to get back at their wayward wives. So this would be a pass for me, but I'm sure it has a large and enthusiastic audience elsewhere, which is great.
- Anonymous said...
The name Aisling did not exist in the fifth century.
Aisling (or Aislinn) is a political genre of Irish poetry created in the 17th-18th century in which the island of Ireland appears to the poet in the form of a woman. The woman laments the current state of the Irish people and predicts an approaching return to glory.
The word, which on its own means "dream" or "vision", has only been used as a girls name in Ireland for the last century or so.
I am highly unlikely to read any book about Christians converting the "poor heathens" of another land.
But if I were so inclined, I'd pass on this book the second I saw a fifth century woman named Aisling. I would assume that if the author couldn't be bothered to research the name of her main character, he/she likely hadn't researched much of the plot either.
- Anonymous said...
Sorry, I'm with the plant and her majesty, on this one. I'd rather read the book from the 'savages' point of view.
- Anonymous said...
It was the name Luc that struck me as not being particularly Celtic. (Did a wandering Frenchman also make it into this story?)
I get the feeling this is supposed to be an "inspirational" novel. It might work as that, but I highly doubt it would go over as a mainstream romance.
- Luna said...
Oh, ick ick ick! Eeeeevil pagans and goooooood Christians.
I hate this plot device. I hate the eeeeeevil Christians and the gooooooood pagans device too, but not quiet as much.
Being religious doesn't make someone black and white, and this level of preachiness certainly won't fly in a historial romance, where readers are most concerned about the, er, romance.
(You may also want to research Celtic druids a bit more, because a lot of this sounds like it's been grabbed from various periods and pagan lores and mixed together in a not-very-appetizing human sacrifice cocktail.)
(Although I know the druids did make sacrifices, as did many primitive cultures. I'm not saying lose the angle, I'm saying that as it's presented I wouldn't want to read about it.)
Off to my weekly secret stone circle ritual group potluck...
- Mazement said...
If Patrick is really St. Patrick, then playing up the "driving snakes out of Ireland" bit would capitalize on one of the hot new trends.
Working title: "Snakes on a Wain".
- Anonymous said...
I read the synopsis a couple of times and can't figure out the timeline. She rejects her gods for Christ, keeping her conversion a secret, but then later meets Patrick and hears about Christ (for the first time?). That's how I read it but I realize it can't be so. In a synopsis this short I would recommend keeping the timeline strictly linear.
Also not a fan of infidels "saved" by Christians (elephant in the room: weren't Christians about to go on a devastating rampage across the Middle East in just a few more centuries?) but more importantly I'm wondering how this would sit with inspirational readers...? I've read blurbs for modern inspirationals, and as far as I can tell they don't usually denigrate other religions in the process of championing Christianity. Just thinking about the market potential here.
I would guess the romance angle is her husband being saved in the end ("trusting her Lord for ultimate redemption" could refer to hubby?) and they live happily ever after. I'm pretty sure an inspirational would not include adultery, even if the marriage hadn't been sanctifed by the "correct" god.
So - no hot hunky slave sex. Dang.
- Anonymous said...
Is anyone else sent into raptures of giggling by "'Christ is my druid now'", or is it just me?
- Anonymous said...
Snakes on a wain.
Outstanding, mazement! Well done.
- born_liar said...
These names could be the setup for a joke.
A Frenchman, a modern-day Irish woman, and a British slave walk into a bar...
- Anonymous said...
Of course, Patrick did convert Ireland to Christianity, so the whole Chrisitan-Druid conflict is historically accurate. And I don't think we can assume a christians-good-druids-bad theme from a query.
It is interesting: I've noticed you rarely see christians protrayed in a good light in modern literature that isn't overtly christian/inspirational.
- Anonymous said...
When I saw "Lorcan MacKenna" I immediately thought of popular (female) Celtic singer Loreena McKennitt, which probably isn't the image the author had in mind for the villain.
- Anonymous said...
I think the sacrifice of her son would make more sense if her husband found out that the child wasn't his...otherwise, why would he sacrifice his own son? Of course, that would mean that her morals were a tad off...or, maybe he could just think/suspect that the boy wasn't his?
- Anonymous said...
Christ is my druid? Errrr... I really don't think that's accurate. it would be more accurate to say that Aisling is a druid. Christ is a god, or a sub-diety, or whatnot.
And please, I hope in the name of Athena that you don't preach in this novel. Pagan bad/Christian good is innacurate. Pagan kinda bad and good / Christian kinda bad and good is more accurate. Make sure that Ronan isn't an entirely bad guy... just a guy doing what he believes is right.
And is Aisling going to go for monotheism all at once? I'd find it more accurate if she accepted Christ as ONE diety of many, at first at least. Unless St. Patrick brainwashes her.
IF YOU DO YOUR RESEARCH this novel has potential. IF YOU STAY OBJECTIVE this novel has potential. IF YOU DO NOT it will probably flop straight into the slushpile.
- tlh said...
The thing that got me is... okay, you have your worst enemy's daughter in your possession. Instead of selling her into slavery, or killing her, or any number of horrible things to punish her father... you coerce her into marrying you by threatening to kill her father, who one would assume you would have killed already if you could (and thus the threat is empty) and then have her pretty much underfoot for the rest of your married life, in a prime place to poison you, stab you in your sleep, or otherwise make life short for you?
ofwygc: a good name for a 5th century Irish villain?
- Anonymous said...
If you want my two cents (which, combined with several more cents, might get you a danish) I:
1. Don't think anyone will care much when the name Aislain or whatever her name is was first used.
2. I think a lot of Christians would like this book, and the author might want to try Christian publishers.
Please note that I am not Christian, I'm just thinking about this book in relation to the success of other books with inaccurate historical information and inaccurate religious information (ie, Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code). In other words, I think that if an author tells a good tale, historical details tend to fall to the wayside, and no one really cares.
- Catja (green_knight) said...
A reader:
Many people *do* care about blatant historical inaccuracies, bad naming, etc. I have a hard time taking a book seriously if ten minutes of googling could have made it better.
Never assume your readers are stupid.
- Anonymous said...
Catja: I didn't say stupid. I said they wouldn't care.
- Urnamma said...
I second Catja's comments, to some degree. As to 'who would care'... I think people of Irish descent would care deeply about seeing their history completely misrepresented.
Before we begin with the historical inaccuracies though... Why so anti-Christian here? Early Christians are a bit different from the 15th century (time periods and what not). In many cases, they had memories (many recent) of being sacrificed as captives, being thrown to the lions, or being crucified for their faith. Or, being children left exposed to the elements to die, and being raised by other Christians.
In this time period, most non-christians in non-Roman Europe -were- barbarians. Literally.
A lot of things could have been corrected by judicious use of google, but here's the inaccuracries from a historian's perspective:
Patrick was not called Patrick. He was called 'Fhadraigh' when paganism was still common (the P wasn't present in the language widely outside of church records for some time). 'MacKenna' is an impossible name (no K in Gaelic), and would be 'mac Ceinna', which is out of date (viking period name).
Further, there is use of surnames at all, which is totally inappropriate; they would be only used for formal things, and even then, they're a bit vague.
'O'Cellaigh' would be 'Ua Ceallaigh' in this usage, and would only be a formal declaration of one's tribe, and not ever used casually (that'd be offensive).
Druids didn't exist by this point (the last Irish druids were more or less exterminated at Lough Derg; poeticized with Patrick defeating the beast of Lough Derg, turning the lake red; a poetic version of 'the Christians and pagan Irish fought there and the pagans died').
However, Patrick wasn't in ireland when the Lough Derg incident happened. He did convert the cavern of Lough Derg from a pagan shrine to a Christian one.
It's why he didn't bother much with the south of Ireland though; the pagans there (which included the Irish enclave of druids) had been exterminated, converted, or fled to the north. Every druid was killed. Any 'druids' remaining were lower functionaries.
Further, calling Jesus a druid would be a grevious insult, considering druids were considered wicked by Christians because part of their duty was the sacrifice of humans.
Further, they can't choose to sacrifice their children, even if they're pagans. Her 'husband' could not POSSIBLY offer their son (yeah, when DID that happen?) for sacrifice.
Sacrifices were composed of criminals and prisoners of war, not children, by pre-Christian Gaelic law.
Also, Hallelujah was not in use in Ireland (while widespread now, it was, at the time, more common in the southern 'Latin' sphere of Christianity; the normal shout in northern Roman Gaul and the isles would have been in the local native language, generally something like the Irish form of 'Glory to God!', which was more or less a modified tribal affirmation of loyalty to a chief).
Patrick was a Roman Briton, with the title Patricius (where the name comes from). His given name was Maewyn Succat. In Ireland, he'd probably be called Moiran by those who would know him personally.
Pope Celestine was the first to actually call him Patricius (he refered to him as the 'Patrician of Ireland' when visiting Britain)
Also...ancient standing stones were NOT usually a site of Celtic religious ritual. They had temples, sacred mounds, votive ponds and lakes, etc. The standing stones (and there are a LOT more than just stonehenge, were pre-celtic). Like, the Lady of the Lake is born out of a clear pagan Celtic belief in a lake goddess.
Also, one did not 'succeed' their parents as a druid. Being a druid required what was essentially a college education, it was not remotely an inherited position. Druids had a lot of memorization to do, and a lot of mathematics, geometry, etc to study.
You had to study under a master. Further, female 'druids' were generally attendants, doctors, or otherwise served an ancillary public function. They were not 'to a clan'. Nevermind that the Irish (Gaels) didn't HAVE clans, they had tribes.
A clan is an extended family unit of multiple families, and is considered much smaller than a tribe (it's generally believed to be a concept of a 'fractured' tribe; the first 'cenell' were actually portions of the Ui Neill TRIBE, when it broke up due to infighting)
Clans are much closer related. Irish tribes are huge, and they claim descent (often erroneously) from a common, distant ancestor.
Like, the Eoghanachta tribe ruled Munster. Their one TRIBE inhabited over 2/3rds of the kingdom. A tribe is way too big to have one 'druidess'.
The mention of child sacrifice seems pretty common here, and it's utter rubbish. Celtic pagan religion DID sacrifice humans, no doubt, but they didn't go around sacrificing children. Their religion actually forbade it, because children are intended to replace the elder members of the tribe one day. Like the infirmed and the elderly, children were a 'protected' class. No matter what they did, they could never be punished with death (except for treason) or offered for sacrifice because they were too holy.
Also, if 'Patrick' here is supposed to be Saint Patrick, the concept of him having an affair with a woman adulterously is nigh slanderous, and an insult to any Catholic, let alone one with Irish ancestry. Patrick was reknowned for his respect for women, for one thing, as well as his emphasis on the sacred status of marriage. The concept of this woman becoming a Christian by way of Patrick, and then sleeping with him (ADULTEROUSLY! GAH!) is almost a blantant slap in the face.
Aside from that, Patrick wasn't apparently considered very attractive. For one, he wore a beard (a pretty unattractive thing to Gaels, unless you were very rich and had servants to groom and style it), and he was most likely a celibate (while not a requirement at the time, Patrick did encourage celibacy for those unmarried).
Most Gaelic Christians did not accept monothiesm very quickly, even if they accept Christ. It was a large portion of Patrick's later work in Ireland. Further, while he was a slave in Britain, Patrick was an athiest (of sorts) for a long time. He converted to Christianity initially largely out of desperation (he was familiar with it; his father had been a bishop). He says in Confessio that he had 'not yet known God' during most of his initial stay in Ireland as a slave.
The names generally suck. I'm not expecting you to know Gaelic, but for a 'historical' romance, you should make an attempt at getting the names right.
Aisling, way out of period, Luc, not remotely Irish (it was used by some later Irish...during the high middle ages and increased trade with France)
People weren't generally sacrificed in fire by Gaelic pagans. They were cut open and their entrails were examined by Druids to read the omens.
The chief god of the Irish at this time was Lugh, ostensibly the sun god (Celtic religion didn't have gods that were hardfast related to one 'field', as it were; those applications were generally by foreigners to make their gods easier to understand, based on their traits).
/ rant (for now)
Quiz question: How many black popes have there been?
- Anonymous said...
urnamma: If you meant black, as in skin colour, 3.
St Victor 189AD, St Militiades 311-314, St Galassius 492-296 (or so sais holyangels.com)
However, the wikipedia has this:
"The Black Pope" is a derogatory name given to the Superior General of the Society of Jesus due to the Jesuits' practice of wearing black cassocks (compared to the pope's always wearing white robes), and to the order's specific allegiance to the Roman pontiff.
I dunno which one you meant, I'm sure I didn't pass. Informative rant. However, not all peoples considered 'pagans' by the Christians, really were ones. I'm sure you'll disagree. That's fine. I am just a plant, after all.
- Anonymous said...
Many readers of historical romances really do care about anachronism, and as the comments here have shown, many people know enough about pre-Christian Ireland to know that the details here are fishy.
The thing that caught me, though, was the quote, which I immediately recognized as one of Saint Columba's (aka St. Columcille). If my memory serves me, he was alive and working in Ireland around 500 AD -- and a LOT of Irish Catholics at least will know that quote. (More at http://ns2.rsok.com/columcille_and_druids.html)
If you're going for a purely Christian market, you'll still need to fix the research problems in the book. If you're not, you might reconsider making the good / evil split between Christians and pagans so obvious
- Urnamma said...
Nut, you did indeed get that correct.
You have to understand that Christianity was incredibly influenced by being Roman at the time, so barbarian and pagan (which means uneducated bumkin) are terms that they used to classify non-christians. Of course not all of them were, specifically. The Sassanians in particular ;) Then we have the various heresies, Arians, Nestorians, etc.
- Evil Editor said...
It should be pointed out in the author's defense that the Hallelujahs (a joke that few would get in Gaelic) and the affair between Patrick and Aisling were added by Evil Editor, and not part of the query (and possibly not part of the book).
- Anonymous said...
Me? I got something right? But, but, but... I was just using yahoo search!
Thanks, urnamma. It's cool, when someone knows what they are writing about. And you do. So, rock on!
- Anonymous said...
Wow Urnamma....
Can I take a class or something?
- Urnamma said...
Technically, yes you can take a class. I should be back to teaching in the fall of 07.
Verification Word: Galtpyuy; the drink that John Galt has every morning.


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5 Reasons why you should be gaming in your Library
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This past month, my library (Cape May County Library) was named the first place winner of the New Jersey State Library's video contest "Solving Life's Problems." The video follows a timid young boy named Trevor whose family cannot afford to buy him the latest video game system. Instead, his family takes him to his local library where he quickly becomes a fan of the weekly game night program. In turn, Trevor and his family become regulars at the library. (So regular that Trevor now gets high fives from the librarians!)
Needless to say, I'm super proud of our staff (Lisa Alderfer, Technology Librarian and Mike Trout, Technology Assistant) for putting this video together. It clearly shows the many ways a library can be there for its patrons if we just take that extra step. But video games…in the library? I always get quizzed about how odd this idea seems by friends, family, and library patrons. I tell them that the answer is simple…we're a public library and the public wants video games so…we give them video games! In 2008, video games sales topped $21 billion dollars(http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28682836). Now I'm no expert with money, but that seems like a lot. Enough that we librarians should take notice.
If you're on the fence about video game programs or circulating video game collections in your library, here are five reasons why you should just go for it.
1. Welcome to the 21st Century!
Video games are part of the new media. Corporations are using video games for product placement. Movie stars are starring in their own video games. That old cliche of video games making kids lazy and unsocial can be thrown out in the trash. Video games help people learn how to solve problems, develop hand/eye coordination, and now with games such as Wii Fit, provide exercise. Please check out all of your excuses at the door thank you very much.
Welcome to the 21st Century, where video games are a relevant source of information and media. If you choose not to have any kind of video games in your library, you're living in the past.
2. Gaming builds community.
Since my library (Cape May County Library) initiated our Game Night program in January 2008, we have seen around 20-30 teens attending our weekly Game Night program. Looking at this crowd, you see a wide range of personalities; the hardcore gamers, the metalheads, the anime teens, and many more. Over the past year, I've watched all these personalities mix, mingle, and become good friends. Teens have told me that because of our Game Night program they now have more friends at school. This is what the 21st century library is all about…building community. The public library of the 21st century should bring together all sorts of people and provide them with the stuff they want.
3. You will see all sorts of new people in your library.
My desk is situated about 30 feet from our entrance. I get to see a number of folks stopping in the library on a daily basis. They're usually the same people, but since we got our circulating video game collection things have changed. I see a lot of new faces coming in every few days to get a new game. Once they find out I'm the one buying the games, I become sort of a pseudo celebrity. The cool thing about this story? These are people I've NEVER seen in the library before. Just think of all the patrons that are out there that are not interested in books. This is one way to reach them.
4. You couldn't ask for an easier way to get teens interested in the library.
I call video games the "gateway drug for getting reluctant teens interested in the library." It almost seems too easy. Have video games and they will come. That's it. As I said in #2 above, every week I see a wide range of personalities mixing it up for two hours over Rock Band. These teens started out just coming to our game nights. I casually introduced them to our other teen programs and all the teen books and graphic novels we had. I didn't beat them over the head with this other stuff…instead I just said "Hey, take a look at this other cool stuff." Slowly but surely the teens were coming into the library on non game nights. They were checking out books. They were coming up to my desk and requesting new books. As a matter a fact, they helped initiate a new collection of video game strategy guides in our teen room.
Now, our teen circulation is through the roof. All of our teen programs are very well attended. And it all started with video games in the library.
5. The initial cost may be high, but the return investment is priceless.
Wow. That was such a cliche line. I'm sort of proud of myself for writing it. Anyway, video games cost a lot of money. Playstation 3 games regularly go for $59.99. Ouch. Especially in a time when so many libraries are getting budget cuts. Here's something to think about though; You're not plopping down all this money for nothing. You are creating life long library users. These patrons will see that and they'll become supporters for your library. They'll be the ones to fight for you in the future if you face budget cuts.
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Pity the poor employees of companies like "Windows Technical Support"—scammers who make money by "fixing" computers that were never broken in the first place. For the people who pose as Windows support technicians and cold call unsuspecting victims to warn them about bogus viruses, life is good as long as they can wrangle credit card numbers and remote PC access from the gullible.
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But the serious "scam trolls" elevate scammer-baiting to an art form, sometimes wasting as much as two hours on the phone as they see just how long a scammer will stay on the line. The tech support scam is an international phenomenon, and the scam trolls likewise come from across the globe. Many record their interactions with the scammers and post them for the world to hear—and learn from. Here's how the masters do it.
Please wait two hours while my dial-up connects to CompuServe
While some troll scammers as a public service to prevent people from being victimized, others are simply out for laughs. Case in point: a person calling himself "Ted" kept a scammer on the phone for nearly two hours, recording the last 43 minutes and posting them to SoundCloud last week.
"Thank you for two hours of your time, you dumb motherf****r"
A good troll is a prepared troll, and Ted was ready. He dragged out the call by pretending to connect his Windows 95 and Windows Vista computers to CompuServe via dial-up Internet, by providing an expired credit card number, and by providing absurd answers to basic questions.
Ted spent much of his call pretending to struggle to connect to the Internet. "OK, so you want me to connect to the Internet with this. God, it's an hour and eight minutes we've been on the phone, this is taking forever. All right, hold on, so this is called—I need to connect it to the phone. It's called an acoustic coupler… Hold on one second. All right, it's not connecting to my CompuServe account for some reason. Let me try my AOL account, hold on."
Ted switched back and forth between his Windows 95 and Windows Vista computers. On Vista, Ted claimed he couldn't follow the scammer's instructions until he finished installing the non-existent Service Pack 3 (Vista only has two service packs).
Ted asked the scammer if he could make his Windows 95 computer run as fast as his Windows Vista one, and professed his desire to be a good citizen. "I want this machine to be secured, for sure," he said. "And I don't want my machine being dangerous, for sure, I mean that would be bad, that would be very bad, I don't want it to be bad, I want it to be good. I'm a responsible Internet user, I don't want to be some of these hacker types that infect the Web and stuff like that."
The scammer tried to direct Ted to the ammyy website:
Ted: So, I'm connected to CompuServe. What now, what do you need me to do?
Scammer: I need you to open the website, www.
Ted: Hold on. www, d-o-t
Scammer: No, it's not d-o-t. It's www. Full stop.
Ted: Www dot full stop, yup.
Scammer: Sir, it's not like that, it's not like that. Sir, how do you open up any website, sir? www.google.com. www.yahoo.com?
Ted: Yes. Oh, I see what you're saying. I was confused, sorry. So what site do I open? You want me to go to fullstop.com?
Scammer: Sorry?
Ted: You said to go to fullstop.com, right?
Scammer: No. No sir. www.ammyy.com.
Through it all, Ted periodically replays the dial-up modem connection sound when he has to "reconnect," tells the scammer he doesn't have Internet Explorer but uses Mosaic to surf the Web, and claims to be worried about his online banking because he wants to move a large amount of money out of his account. After initially providing an expired credit card number, Ted gives the scammer a real one—or at least one that sounds authentic enough for the scammer to start verifying Ted's birth date and other information.
Scammer: Confirm your date of birth, please.
Ted: Oh yes.
Scammer: Will you confirm it please?
Ted: Did you give it to me? What is it, what do you have?
Scammer: No, you need to tell me your date of birth.
Ted: OK. Oh, you want my date of birth right now. It's June.
Scammer: June?
Ted: Yes.
Scammer: Ok, like, uh, June 12th , June 10th, when is it, sir?
Ted: Oh yes. June 12th.
Scammer: Can you confirm me the year?
Ted: 1950.
Suddenly, Ted is claiming to be hot and tense and says, "I need to take off my pants, it's way too hot." Next, he tells the scammer to address him less formally.
"You don't have to keep calling me 'sir,'" Ted said. "I mean, we've been on the phone an hour and 50 minutes together. My friends call me 'Cinnamon.' If you want to call me Cinnamon, that's fine." (The scammer actually starts calling Ted "Cinnamon.")
Once the scammer says Ted will have to pay $700 to fix his computer and for ongoing support, Ted tells him to add $50 for himself because of how helpful he's been. The scammer happily accepts the tip... just before Ted concludes with a brutal, "Thank you for two hours of your time, you dumb motherfucker," and hangs up the phone.


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